Up close and
personal
with the new
UA pres.
Joyce Kim talks being a female president,
new initiatives and election ‘shenanigans’

Carissa Lundquist checked herself into
a mental hospital last semester after she
claims she was assaulted. This is the
story of her attempt to return to normal
life at Penn.

BY KRISTEN GRABARZ
Staff Writer
After a particularly eventful
election season, College junior
Joyce Kim was elected as the
new Undergraduate Assembly
President. The Daily Pennsylvanian spoke with Kim about
her plans during her tenure.
The Daily Pennsylvanian:
You’re the first female presiHailing from Allen, dent in a very, very long time.
Texas, Kim is a How do you feel about that?
junior in the College
Joyce Kim: It’s really excitmajoring in Political ing. I feel very thankful to have
Science. had this opportunity. I do think
it’s a little bit strange — this
position was actually created in 2010. Before that it
was a chair that was internally elected, but then in
2010 it was changed so the entire student body voted.
So the fact that I’m the first female to even run is kind
of crazy, but I feel very thankful and honored.

BY SARAH SMITH
Senior Writer

Left in

JOYCE KIM

DP: Can you speak to some of your major initiatives
for the upcoming year?
JK: Something my committee has been working
hard on is a mental wellness resource guide. I think
that CAPS is very important and it definitely has a
place on campus, but I know that for me, there are
some spaces that I go to for my own mental health —
say the Greenfield Intercultural Center, the Office of
the Chaplain, the multicultural centers in the ARCH.
In these spaces I see a lot of ‘regulars,’ but I think it
would be awesome if more students could tap into
that. The purpose of this guide is us working with
12 different resource centers, along with University
Communications and CAPS ... I think the most important part is that it comes with testimonials for each
center ... I think that creates a human element. I think
that can help destigmatize reaching out to different
places when it comes to issues of mental wellness.
That’s something I hope to continue working on and
hopefully get it out before the end of the semester by
working with the student run Mental Health InitiaSEE KIM PAGE 6

F

or the first month of her final semester at Penn, Carissa Lundquist
wasn’t sure she was a student.
After an October 2013 encounter
with a friend that she believes constituted sexual and physical assault, Carissa,
a College senior, did what she thought she was
supposed to do: She reported it to the University. But when Penn’s Office of Student Conduct
dropped her complaint due to lack of evidence
and the restrictions separating Carissa and her
alleged attacker were lifted, she broke down
and checked herself into a hospital.
When she came back to Penn in January for
her last semester, she says it took until midFebruary for the University to tell her that
she was fully re-enrolled. If the administration
hadn’t let her return, she would have considered filing a complaint against the University
with the federal Department of Education.
Carissa’s case sheds light on some of the
shortcomings with how the University handles
students who say they have been victims of
sexual assault and who experience mental

LIMBO
health issues, and reveals the bureaucracy that
students must navigate after an unexpected
break in academic work.
The University was unable to comment on
Carissa’s specific case due to confidentiality
laws. However, University spokesperson Stephen MacCarthy offered general explanations
on Penn’s policies.
“The staff who handle these issues are
highly trained and deeply committed to helping students in times of need,” MacCarthy
said in an emailed statement to The Daily
Pennsylvanian.
But Carissa felt she was caught up in a
process that placed unreasonable burdens on
her to prove that she was fit to return to the
University.
“I feel like Penn wants me to say I’m OK, I’ve
moved past it,” she said. “But I’m not going to
tell them that things are fine. I’d rather keep
throwing it in their face: I’m uncomfortable.
Being here is really hard because of the way
the whole system seems to have failed me,
even though I did the whole process correctly.”

SEE CARISSA PAGE 5

Penn lacrosse
allegedly
damages bar
Manager claims players stole alcohol,
exposed genitals, smoked marijuana
BY YUEQI YANG
Staff Writer
Members of Penn’s women’s lacrosse team allegedly engaged in “absolutely deplorable behavior”
on Saturday night at Fado Irish Pub in Center City.
The bar’s general manager, Casey Neff, sent
an email to The Daily Pennsylvanian , women’s
lacrosse coach Karin Brower Corbett and Penn’s
Athletic Department , among others, claiming that
a group of 50 people under the lacrosse team’s reservation did considerable damage to his business.
The incident is currently under investigation by
Penn’s Athletic Department.
The event was a pre-planned party hosted by the
Penn women’s lacrosse team scheduled from 9-11
p.m., Neff said, although he added that the group
stayed much later.
In the email, the bar owner complained that the
team members intentionally broke facilities such
as a light fixture which caused a “broken glass
hazard.” The students also allegedly stole a bottle
of liquor from the bar and attempted to steal a sixpack of beer. Neff claimed that the lacrosse players also smoked marijuana in the bathroom and
exposed a young woman’s genitals to the “adulation
of the rest of the party.” They also allegedly tipped
less than 4 percent on the $1,300 tab.
“We want people to have fun. We are happy that
people come out,” Neff said. “But that was well
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College senior Carissa Lundquist was unsure of her status as a student until over a month into the semester.

Amanda Suarez/Managing Editor

Alum’s whimsical bakery
gets Chinatown storefront
Audrey Chang’s Audabon
Bakeshop formerly supplied
macarons to the Rodin cafe
BY TINA CHOU
Contributing Writer
Passion fruit cheesecake, matcha red bean and lavender sesame
caramel.
Audabon Bakeshop co-owner and
baker Audrey Chang is bringing
eccentric flavors alive as French
macarons. In addition to her selection of macarons, Chang offers
puddings such as black sesame,
salty caramel and buttermilk panna cotta. The salty caramel pudding
is her signature, and it helped to
propel her from a portable stand
in Suburban Station to her current storefront, which opened last
Wednesday.
After a member of Yelp’s Elite
Squad — a group of particularly
active reviewers — raved about the
pudding on Yelp’s website, demand
for Audabon treats escalated and
Chang could not keep up. People
waited in lines before her stand was
open for the day and everything

would sell out within three hours.
“At some point I reached my
maximum capacity. I could only fit
so much in the fridge,” Chang said.
She moved into wholesale, supplying Sweet Ending, Chapter House,
and the cafes in Rodin College
House and Williams Hall before
finally finding a place of her own.
Audabon Bakeshop now occupies
a small space in Chinatown, and it
already has a personality. “Dance
a bit and sing a bit to yourself. We
turn the music up just a little bit too
loud,” Chang tells employees. “[It]
may be harder to hear customers,
but it makes the place feel more
like a party.”
Chang majored in economics at
Penn and graduated in 2010. When
she graduated, she landed a job in
private equity. “I was stressed out
all the time, and my way of coping with that stress was to bake,”
Chang said. She baked for friends
and family who insisted that she
could sell the desserts. In May 2012,
she quit her corporate job and focused full time on baking.
Chang recalled her parents being

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Audabon Bakeshop, co-owned by 2010 alumnus Audrey Chang, offers
exotic macaron flavors and opened its first storefront in March.

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A conversation with Ra Ra Riot bassist Mat Santos
Santos talks ‘strange
dance moves’ and what
it’s like to tour Japan
BY KRISTEN GRABARZ
Staff Writer
Indie rock band R a R a
Riot will be opening for David Guetta at Spring Fling on
April 11. The Daily Pennsylvanian had a conversation with
bassist Mat Santos about his
experience and Ra Ra Riot’s
musical evolution.
Daily Pennsylvanian: How
did the band come together?
Mat Santos: We were students at Syracuse University. It was last semester,
and Milo, our guitar player,
just really wanted to start a
band, so he started getting
people together. It was kind
of funny because none of us
were friends before the band
started, which I think is kind
of unusual. Milo just did some
networking. He knew that I
played the bass and that Becca played violin, and he asked
her if she knew any cellists.
We all just met at the first

practice. It was just supposed
to be something to do for that
semester, but we ended up
having so much fun that first
semester that we were like,
“Oh, let’s go on tour this summer!” It just sort of picked up
steam, and now it’s been eight
years.
DP: So you guys have become f r iends since then,
right?
MS: Yeah, we’re more like
family, probably.
DP: How would you describe Ra Ra Riot’s current
sound?
MS: It’s kind of hard to say.
When I listen back to the recordings we’ve made, it’s easy
for me to pick out little things.
To me it’s totally a collaboration, just a mix of what each
of us are into individually at
the time. It’s hard to say, but
I think we all have pretty different tastes, but we overlap
in that we all like ‘80s pop
— classic rock and classic
pop — we all grew up with our
parents listening to it. We all
have an ‘80s vocabulary.

DP: Ra Ra Riot is known
for incorporating orchestral
instruments into its music.
Where did that come from?
MS: I think that was part of
Milo’s idea when he was first
putting the band together. He
had this big idea where he
just wanted a whole bunch of
different instruments in the
room together. I think he was
probably inf luenced at the
time by Broken Social Scene
or Arcade Fire. I think it was
a goal of his to get a violinist and a cellist involved just
to have different themes to
work with.

our original cellist had just
left the band. We’ve undergone some lineup changes
over the years, and that was
the first time we were going
to be recording as four original members [instead of five]
... we were all interested individually in branching out
and doing different things. We
all added more keyboard, we
were writing more ambitious
songs with more harmonies
and stuff. So I think having
the lineup change right before
we started working on the
record helped us let go a little
bit and just sort of go for it.

DP: It’s been said that Ra
Ra Riot’s sound underwent
a shift between “Beta Love”
and the previous album. Was
that a conscious change?
M S: I t h i n k a l l ba nd s
change over the years naturally — you know, the people
change and their interests
and inspirations change. So I
definitely feel like it was natural. I don’t want to say it was a
conscious decision, but I think
we knew going into it that it
[“Beta Love”] was going to
be pretty different because

DP: Who are your musical
influences?
MS: It’s kind of funny —
we’ve been on a little bit of a
break recently, so everyone’s
kind of been off doing their
own thing and getting into different things probably, so it’s
hard to say how that’s going to
translate into the next record.
I personally have been listening to a lot of fusion jazz —
Weather Report type of stuff
and a little bit very recently of
Chet Atkins. I saw Sting and
Paul Simon a couple weeks

ago in New York City, so I’ve
been revisiting some of my favorite Paul Simon and Police
records. It’s always a whole
bunch of stuff.
DP: R a R a Riot toured
South Asia last year — how
did that differ from performing at American venues?
MS: We did a couple tours
there last year, most recently
in November. It’s always such
a blast and so much fun. In
parts of Asia, they get particularly excited when an American band comes through. The
crowds really react and get
excited — it’s like we’re coming all the way over to their
hemisphere to play music.
It was really fun ... we got to
meet a lot of people after the
shows. Everyone was super
gracious and thankful and
really excited that we were
playing there.
Also a funny tidbit: I feel
like in Asia — but particularly
in Japan — while you’re playing the crowd is really, really quiet. The first couple of
times we played there it threw
us off a little bit because it was
hard to read, and it seemed

like people weren’t into it at
all. But they’re just really paying attention to the technical
aspect of the band, and they
want to see how each person
is playing their instrument.
It’s pretty much dead silent
until the last note of the song
is rung out, and then they’ll
start clapping. They’re very
respectful of the whole performance in general.
DP: What’s your favorite
concert memory?
MS: There have been too
many to name. I guess this
past summer we played in
Boston ... While we were playing there was a guy dancing
very, very enthusiastically on
the side of the stage while we
were playing. He had some
strange dance moves. The entire crowd could see him and
they all started copying him,
and so the whole last half of
the set turned into this huge,
crazy synchronized dance
thing. It was just wild to see
from the stage — I thought it
was like a flash mob or something. The crowd really got
into it, and everyone was having a lot of fun.

Alumnus honored by White House for activism in Philadelphia
BY CLAIRE COHEN
Deputy News Editor
Since coming to Philadelphia 28 years ago, 1993 College
graduate Helen Gym has been
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The White House seems to
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a former City Editor at the
Daily Pennsylvanian, with a
Cesar Chavez “Champion of
Change” award.
This award is given to those
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of others in their communities and across the country,”
according to a White House
press release.
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Students and faculty lead mental
health rally on College Green
The Green Ribbon
Campaign is proposing
specific initiatives
BY HARRY COOPERMAN
City News Editor
While a University-wide
mental health task force is
set to release a report next
year, students and faculty
are demanding that Penn immediately consider ways to
improve mental health and
wellness on campus.
The Green Ribbon Campaign — a student-led mental
health and wellness advocacy
coalition — held its first rally
on Monday afternoon to raise
questions about the current
state of mental heath on campus and to present its platform
on ways Penn can improve.
“We need to tell Amy Gutmann enough is enough, we
need to get tough,” School of
Social Policy & Practice professor Toorjo Ghose said.
At an institutional level, the
group is proposing that more
resources be devoted to Counseling and Psychological Services. It wants the minimum
wait time to get an appointment at CAPS to be reduced
to seven days and additional
CAPS hours on Saturdays and
Sundays, among other ideas.
The group is also proposing, at the individual level,
that the University increase
peer-to-peer training among
students and specifically add
more regular outreach by resident and graduate advisors
to their residents about their
mental wellness.
The campaign is also calling for a change in mental
health dialogue on campus
to foster the creation of a cohesive and supportive community and eliminate stigma
surrounding mental health
resources.
Mental health at Penn is
“something that should have
been addressed a long time
ago,” said College sophomore
Derek Sexton, who is chairing
the outreach committee of the
mental health initiative.
He explained that the University needs to start contemplating the proposals of the
Green Ribbon Campaign, as
they represent the desires
of the student body. Sexton
noted that these proposals all
stem from complaints brought

by students to the student
leaders of the Penn Undergraduate Health Coalition.
“There are things that
could be implemented now
that could have an effect,” he
said.
The campaign plans to hold
rallies and maintain a visible

presence in the coming weeks
to ensure that its members’
message comes across to the
administration.
“We really need to do something that addresses the
mental health situation on
campus,” Ghose said.

Jill Golub/Staff Writer

Students and faculty gather near College Green as part of a Green Ribbon
Campaign-organized rally that raised a series of questions and presented the
group’s proposals concerning mental wellness.

What it Is
Theology on Tap is a relatively new idea that other campus congregations are using to
engage their student populations. UniLu’s Campus Ministry team will hold a Theology
on Tap event every 1st Thursday of the month, alternating bars each time. We will use
this time to have an open discussion about our spirituality and explore topics relating to
students and young adults. Students under 21 are still welcome.

Our Next Event

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 3 April 2014 at 6.00 PM
 Held at Landmark Americana (3333 Market Street, University City)
 We’ll be discussing the role church plays in our lives
For more information email James Stanton at james.stanton@uniluphila.org or visit our
website.

NICK MONCY is a College sophomore from North Miami, Fla. His email address is nickmon@sas.upenn.edu.

On my UA experience

What a drag

WHAT’S THE T? | We should appreciate drag
without turning it into mere spectacle
T his past Saturday evening was one of the best
nights of my life. I prepared
to take the stage with one of
my best friends. Surrounded
by people that I love, I secured my flower crown to my
wig, adjusted my dress and
walked down the aisle. This
was my first time in a drag
performance, a part of the
QPenn annual celebration of
LGBTQ culture at Penn.
Many people, even people in the LGBTQ community, understand drag in an
oversimplified way: A man
“dresses up like a woman,”
or a woman “dresses up like
a man.” However, for me and
for others in the drag show
and who do drag all over the
world, it is so much more
than that.
Drag takes on many diverse forms. Historically,
drag has played an absolutely integral part in the LGBTQ community in America.
The riots and activism that
brought attention to issues
of gender and sexuality in the
1950s and 1960s were started
by trans and gender non-conforming people, particularly
transgender women of color
and some of whom identified
as drag queens.
For some, it’s about the
aesthetic. College sophomore Gabriel Ojeda-Sague,
who performed in the QPenn
Drag Show as the fabulous
Hadeeja Souffle, says that
he’s always been drawn to
drag because of the things
that you can do to the body
to create an aesthetic piece.
“For me, drag has always
been this amazing space for
gender play and manipulation of the body,” he said.
“There’s a wonderful tradition out there of people doing
incredible things with drag
that get out of this female impersonation stereotype. You
have these moments where
you’re just making an art
upon the body.”
For many trans and gender non-conforming people,
drag is used to express
and experiment with their
gender in a way that is cel-

ebrated. For me, the actual
lip-sync performance that
night was only one tiny part
of my experience. Expressing femininity in a way that
I have been actively and
passively told that I am not
supposed to has been such a
powerful and important experience. It’s helped me to
understand my gender and
myself in ways that I have
previously not been able to.
However, it is important to
recognize that not all drag

‘‘

Expressing femininity in a way that
I have been actively and passively
told that I am not
supposed to has
been such a powerful and important experience.”
queens are trans or gender
non-conforming. Many drag
queens are cisgender men
who dress femininely for
performance purposes, and
this type of drag is what most
people understand drag to
be today. Unfortunately,
this type of drag can often
express itself through very
misogynistic and transphobic stereotypes.
One of the most popular
drag queens in the world is
RuPaul, whose hit show “RuPaul’s Drag Race” (now in its
sixth season) has come under fire (for good reason) for
many of these issues. RuPaul
and many of the other drag
queens on the show regularly
use transphobic slurs and
misogynist language and
engage in discussion of gender expression in ways that
rely heavily on stereotypes
and leave little to no room for
trans identities. Despite the
fact that at least four of the
contestants on the show (including the amazing Carmen
Carrera) have come out as

GUEST COLUMN BY SEBASTIAN NEGRON-REICHARD

RODERICK COOK
transgender women, RuPaul
continues to defend his use
of this type of transphobic
language.
The idea of drag as “dressing up like” or “impersonating” a gender reinforces the
idea that there is a particular way that people of certain
genders should dress. This
idea goes against what most
trans activists believe to be
true, which is that all people
should be able to express
themselves in whatever ways
they want without regard to
their gender or gender identity.
However, we do not live in
a society that reinforces this
belief, so it is important to
recognize that, unfortunately, there are certain ways of
dressing that people associate with gender. This is why
we see systematic violence
against transgender people, especially transgender
women of color, who traverse
these boundaries every day
by expressing their truth in
the way that they identify and
put themselves out there in
the world.
The LGBTQ community
lifts up drag queens as some
of the most beautiful faces of
the community. It is true that
drag is, and probably always
will be, an integral part of the
LGBTQ movement. However, we must remember that
for trans people, gender expression is so much more
than just a performance. We
need to fight for and celebrate trans people with even
more force and through real
actions that can make our
world safer and more welcoming of gender diversity.
Roderick Cook is a
College sophomore
from Nesquehoning, Pa.
Their email address is
rodcookdp@gmail.com.

Congratulations to all the
new members of the Undergraduate Assembly and
Class Boards! Now that elections are over, it is time to get
to work.
With a student body that
cries for transparency, accountability and above all,
less politicking, this new UA
should focus on sparking a
reflection process to go back
to its foundations and a process of analysis of its true
purpose. Yes, everyone has
something to say about the
UA and about how it works.
However, unless you are
there for a year, you are not
completely knowledgeable
about how this government
apparatus works. In this column, I intend to shed light
on the incredible experience that working in student
government represents and
wish to present my humble
suggestions as to how the
new incoming members can
shake things up.
First things first: I am
deeply thankful to the student body, specifically Wharton students, for electing me
as their representative. Although a lot has been said
about the UA this past year,
serving on the body was a
truly rewarding experience.
Hard work, coupled with the
ability to listen to others, was
key in order to achieve a successful term. The UA members must value the great
work that they did and must
be proud of what was accomplished. A lot was done: the
creation of the Undergraduate Health Coalition and the
interfaith center, the founding of the Residential Services Advisory Board and
the promotion of more nonwork study jobs on campus.
Additionally, we lobbied for
financial assistance for people joining MERT who need
it, achieved the Open Data
Initiative and ensured line
iteming for SAC’s budget.
However, we must also acknowledge what we can improve. I present six points for
further growth:
1. Representatives must
foster more approachabil-

ity in terms of really asking
students what they want to
see the UA doing. Students
should not be approached
solely for votes.
2. The UA needs an effective communication strategy

‘‘

The UA is not
an airport shuttle
club, as I have
heard some people say. For most,
if not all of the representatives, it is
an innate call to do
something productive with their lives
while fostering a
better University.”
that presents what it does to
the student body. Specifically, it would be beneficial
to target the incoming freshman class so as to change
the culture little by little in
terms of how the student
body views the UA.
3. A lot happened in this
election period. It is Joyce
Kim and Josh Chilcote’s responsibility to bring the UA
back to its roots by eradicating the highly political
culture that some students
foster. There are a lot of new
members on the body, and it
is the new cabinet’s responsibility to halt any intent of
politicizing the body.
4. The UA and the other
student government branches should convene regularly
— once every two months —
in a type of town hall meeting
to discuss the pressing issues moving forward (shoutout to Christian Cortes for
this suggestion). This would
allow for more collaboration
between branches and less
unnecessary work.
5. Representatives are human. UA and other branch
members will make mistakes. The more experienced
members should understand

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order to encourage growth.
6. The UA com m ittee
str ucture should be re vamped. Instead of focusing
on producing many and diverse projects, committees
should focus on presenting
tangible deliverables. Quantity trumps quality. (Shoutout to the outgoing Social
Justice Committee and Joyce
Kim for this idea).
Not all Penn students have
to run for the UA. It’s not everyone’s calling to hold office
in student government. Consequently, the student body
should value what the representatives do. The representatives should understand
that they work for and have
their positions because of the
general student body. The
UA is not an airport shuttle
club, as I have heard some
people say. For most, if not
all, of the representatives, it
is an innate call to do something productive with their
lives while fostering a better
University.
This reflection is not an excuse for inefficiency. It’s the
spark to start working. The
new UA should build upon the
last UA’s successes to create an even better body. If I
weren’t going abroad, I would
have definitely been on that
ballot running for a position.
There’s nothing worse than
criticizing without action.
Criticism must lead to action.
I want to thank Abe Sutton and Gabe Delany for their
great leadership, my running
mate Julio German Arias
and everyone else who contributed to this year’s success. To the new UA, whether
in the UA or not, I am always
available to help. I know that
this year will be a great year,
and I wish student government all the best!
Sebastian Negron-Reichard
is a College and Wharton
sophomore and an outgoing
Wharton representative in
the UA. His email address
is seban@wharton.upenn.
edu.

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arissa said she began to feel like something was wrong when
he wouldn’t let her have her pain medication back.
She had knee surgery over fall break to remove scar tissue
and realign her kneecap. She missed a week of school and came back
with crutches to help her walk and Vicodin to help her get through
the pain.
She said she gave her pills to a friend, a current Penn student.
“He said, ‘I don’t trust you to take it responsibly. Let me keep it,’”
Carissa said. “I assumed it was because he wanted to see me every
day, so it was fine.”
But one night, she had to wait until 3 a.m. for him to finish a meeting
before hobbling to his off-campus house, where she stayed overnight.
She said that as she got ready to leave in the morning, he hid her
medicine and her phone. He demanded a hug, she said.
“I was adamant in the fact that I didn’t want him to touch me,” she
said. “But he cornered me and said, ‘See, this isn’t so bad, I’m just
touching you.’” She claims he ran his hands up and down her body
before getting in the shower and letting her go to class.
“Something about it didn’t sit right with me,” she said. Carissa made
an appointment the next day with a female University staff member
she trusted and told her the story, without naming the man in question.
The staffer suggested trying to talk to him and making an appointment
at the Penn Women’s Center.
She said she met with him that night and asked why he hadn’t
stopped when she asked him to.
“He said I had two types of ‘no’s,” she said. “I had the no that actually means no, stop, and I have a no where I’m just afraid — I’m afraid
based on my past experiences. Since he knows those experiences and
he knows he’s not going to hurt me, he knows what’s best.”

‘‘

There is no data available on sanctions OSC doles out for sexual
assault, or even on how often OSC finds students responsible. OSC
denied an October request by the DP to provide data on the outcomes
of specific complaints, with identifying information removed. In January, when Columbia University promised to provide aggregate data
on sanctions for sexual assault, the DP asked if OSC would consider
doing the same. OSC declined again, citing the October letter.
“To comply with your request, we would either have to overly
generalize with respect to the nature of each offense, which would be
misleading or unhelpful, or we would have to disclose a good deal of
additional detail,” the Oct. 8 letter reads. “These explanations would
inevitably raise serious privacy concerns.”
In March, Carissa sent an email to OSC requesting “the records
regarding my complaint from last semester.” OSC did not provide
documents, instead responding with an email.
“Consistent with the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act
(FERPA) and our University’s Policy on the Confidentiality of Student
Records, we are providing this email to serve as a written statement
regarding the outcome of the investigation,” read the email from
OSC. “We explained that our investigation had not found sufficient
evidence to warrant charging the respondent with violating any of
the University’s codes of conduct.”
Frank LoMonte, executive director of the Student Press Law
Center, said OSC should have given Carissa the original documents
under FERPA.
“If it involves this student’s own case, not only can they not withhold
them under FERPA, but they’re obligated to produce them,” LoMonte
said. The only records covered by FERPA in this case, he said, would
be if the alleged attacker had any previous disciplinary violations that

Being here is really hard because of the way the whole system seems to have failed me, even
though I did the whole process correctly.”
— Carissa Lundquist,
College senior

Carissa says that during her freshman year, she was sexually assaulted, but never reported it — which her friend knew about.
She said she went with the Penn staffer to the Women’s Center the
next day. Even though she and her friend weren’t formally dating, the
Women’s Center staff told her it was classic dating violence. Carissa
wanted to talk to him one more time, she said, before the Women’s
Center would reach out to help her get the pills back. Carissa went to
his house again with a promise that she would text the worried staffer
the entire time.
The evening devolved quickly, according to Carissa, as he began
making comments about a friend of theirs whom Carissa used to be
involved with. He said, “I don’t know what you could’ve seen in him.”
She slapped him.
“I know I shouldn’t have,” she said. “But then he grabbed both my
wrists. He held them to the point of hurting me. I told him, ‘Please
stop — please let go.’”
She said he made her repeat after him: “I promise I won’t hit you
again.”
She said he made another comment about the person she used to be
involved with and she kneed him. Then, she said, he allegedly flipped
her over and got on top of her. She said she pushed against him, begging him to get off.
“He was laughing,” she said. “He’s big on the whole hug thing. He
said, ‘Just give me a hug and things will be fine.’”
She did. But, she claims, instead of letting her go, he sexually assaulted her.
The DP is withholding the student’s name, as the Office of Student
Conduct found insufficient evidence to bring a case against him for
assault. He did not respond to multiple requests for comment for this
article.

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***

orried when Carissa stopped answering her texts, the
University staffer called Penn Police, who came to the
scene. With her close friends’ encouragement, she decided to file a complaint on Oct. 28 with the University’s Office of Student Conduct for both sexual and physical assault — a process she
thought would be faster than going through the Philadelphia police.
Carissa ventured back to class after a week of staying home. On the
way to a class, she said she was stopped by a friend of the man who
she says assaulted her.
“He said something to the effect of, ‘You really should be thinking
through these types of decisions,’” she remembered. “It was enough
for me to be like, ‘Maybe I should think about it.’” It wouldn’t be the
first time someone would make a comment to her about the incident.
Carissa went back to OSC and put the case on hold. On Oct. 31,
she told OSC to pick up where it had left off. In a sexual misconduct
complaint, OSC has 60 days to go one of two ways: charge the respondent with a violation of Penn’s student conduct code or dismiss the
complaint due to a lack of evidence.
As OSC investigated her complaint, Carissa met with Student
Intervention Services and Counseling and Psychological Services.
SIS, a Vice Provost for University Life team, is designed to manage
student crises and coordinate across University departments. A staff
member from College academic advising also reached out to help her
deal with academics. She considered taking the rest of the semester
off. But when she learned that the standard minimum leave of absence
in the College is an entire year, instead of just a semester, she balked
and decided to stay in school.
And then there was the matter of seeing her alleged attacker around
campus.
“It was nerve wracking, walking around and entering spaces and
not knowing if I’d see him,” she said.
At a meeting the afternoon after the incident, SIS instituted a no
contact order between the two: They could not talk to each other, and
there would be no indirect contact through friends. Whoever was in a
room first had the right to be there.
Not confident that she would be able to avoid him, Carissa still
wasn’t comfortable. Two weeks later, she told the SIS team as much.
In response, SIS devised a formal schedule for a campus center that
both Carissa and her former friend frequented.
On Monday, Dec. 9, OSC called Carissa into its office and told her
that the office didn’t have enough evidence to go forward. Her case
was dropped.

I

***
n the year from Aug. 31, 2012, to Aug. 31, 2013, there were only
nine cases of sexual or indecent assault and sexual harassment
that OSC investigated. The year before that, there were five.

came up in the course of OSC’s investigation.

O

”

***

SC instructed Carissa not to tell anyone about the decision
until the office notified the other student of the outcome. She
had a meeting with SIS about an hour after the OSC meeting — where SIS told her that it could no longer impose restrictions
on him without his consent.
“Sharon and them couldn’t force him to do anything,” Carissa said,
referring to SIS Director Sharon Smith. “They said, ‘We can ask him
not to talk to you,’ but if he didn’t want to listen they can’t force him to.”
She felt paralyzed. SIS staff walked her to CAPS. She sat in Starbucks. She cried at her friend’s desk for hours, unable to explain what
was wrong.
Back in her room that evening, she got the email from OSC saying
the other student had been informed of the outcome — meaning she
could tell her friends about it.
Hysterical in the aftermath, Carissa doesn’t remember exactly
what she told her friends.
“I know I said this whole thing make me feel like I didn’t matter,
and my story didn’t matter,” she said. She told them she’d walk to
the Schuylkill River, and they may have heard her say she’d jump in,
she said.
Instead, she walked west down Baltimore Avenue, past 50th Street.
Her phone rang on silent in her pocket, she said — calls from her
friends, calls from the CAPS hotline that her friends had called after
she left. She made her way back to campus to her friend’s room. The
police, called by her friends, came to the room and took her to the
Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania.
At HUP, Carissa agreed to commit herself voluntarily, and she
moved to Belmont Behavioral Health, a mental health center north
of Penn. She said the Belmont doctor told her she wasn’t clinically depressed; rather, she was just experiencing a “crisis instant.” Belmont
discharged her several days later to the care of her parents.
Soon after, she got an email from SIS telling her that CAPS had to
medically evaluate her before she could resume her academics.
“Upon your return to campus from the hospital and before you
return to your academic obligations, we expect that you make an appointment to see a professional in our Counseling and Psychological
Services (CAPS) as well as one to speak with my office,” read a Dec.
17 email, provided by Carissa, from Paige Wigginton, at the time a SIS
associate director. “Additionally, our office has been in contact with

your school to let them know you have had a medical emergency and
any academic considerations they can make would be appreciated.”
On Dec. 18, Carissa and her parents returned to campus. She said
she met with CAPS for an evaluation and then went with her parents
to speak to Smith, the director of SIS, who said she would call CAPS
right after the meeting to check on the results.

I

***

n response to questions for this article about the process for students to re-enroll in classes after they have been hospitalized,
the University declined to comment on Carissa’s case, but said
SIS’ role is generally to support students.
“Our primary concern is to respond in a collaborative way by providing services that meet the needs of our students. SIS’ role is that
of support, resources and coordination of effort,” MacCarthy, the
University spokesperson, said in an email.
The emailed statement from University Communications came
after the DP requested an interview with Smith, who did not respond
to the request. In the past, VPUL Communications has declined several requests for interviews with Smith for other articles, citing the

confidential nature of SIS’ work.
In the case of an alleged assault, SIS primarily coordinates with
other University divisions, convenes meetings and facilitates communication, MacCarthy said.
However, he said, SIS cannot authorize leaves of absence — defined
by the College as a year off with the possibility of petitioning to come
back after one semester. MacCarthy did not directly respond to questions regarding the procedure for students — like Carissa — who were
hospitalized due to mental health issues.
“Students seeking to return from leave must notify their School.
If they meet whatever individual criteria the School has set for their
return, their School readmits them,” MacCarthy said in the email.
“If they need additional support, like Weingarten Learning Resource
Center, housing, CAPS, follow-up visits for physical therapy— whatever their particular need might be, SIS helps them arrange for support services.”
Forms on the CAPS website outline the procedure for students
seeking to return from a medical leave of absence that pertains to
mental health. The form authorizes CAPS to obtain any records from
outside clinicians a student saw while on leave. Carissa authorized
her social worker at Belmont Behavioral Health to speak to CAPS.

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***

arissa spent her winter break finishing her thesis and
making up the coursework for the two classes she didn’t
complete in the fall. She coordinated a plan with College
advising that gave her until Jan. 24 to complete her work, or she
would be placed on a mandatory leave of absence from the University. On Jan. 21, Carissa notified the office that she had finished her
outstanding work. A College advisor emailed her on Jan. 29 that her
grades had been posted and she was “no longer eligible for mandatory leave.”
Carissa said she never heard from anyone on the SIS team.
“I assumed CAPS cleared me,” she said, shrugging. Not certain
regarding her status, she emailed SIS to clarify, on the advice of her
parents.
“When I met with you all during finals, you suggested that I check
in with you when I returned back this semester. I have submitted all
the work for my Incomplete classes, and everything’s fine so far,”
she wrote in an email to Lauren Rudick, her SIS case manager, on
Wednesday, Jan. 22. “Just let me know if you need anything from me.”
Two days later, Rudick replied and set up a meeting with SIS for
Monday.
“Sharon was very clear on the fact that I needed to see CAPS ASAP
because there were two options,” Carissa said. “She said I could be
medically evaluated at CAPS and she’d speak to them and I’d be
cleared, or I’d have to leave. I was really confused.”
And so Carissa entered what she perceived as a limbo: She wasn’t
confirmed as a student, she wasn’t on leave and she had to go through
a procedure she felt she’d already done.
At the meeting, Carissa said, Smith told her that academics weren’t
a problem, but because there were no structures in place to separate
Carissa and the student she says assaulted her, Smith was worried
Carissa was in “too vulnerable a position.”
She went for a CAPS evaluation on Jan. 31 and sent Rudick an email
on Feb. 6 — over a week after the College told Carissa she was in good
academic standing.
“I just wanted to know if there was anything else that you all needed
from me before I’m cleared to continue classes for the rest of the
semester,” she wrote.
Rudick replied that day: “Thanks for the update. You should continue with your classes, and we will follow up soon.”
Carissa didn’t meet again with SIS until Feb. 17 — five weeks into
the semester — when she felt like the process was finally winding
down. She agreed to meet with SIS again in a few weeks and — as per
the conditions SIS set — to continue her weekly CAPS meetings. She
said SIS also recommended that she go home every weekend. While
SIS did not explicitly tell her that she was cleared, she said, it was the
first meeting in which SIS did not mention any preconditions she had
to meet in order to be fully enrolled.
If Penn had not allowed her to return, Carissa said, she would have
considered filing a complaint against Penn with the U.S. Department
of Education alleging a violation of Title IX, a 1972 law barring discrimination on the basis of sex in schools. She consulted End Rape
on Campus, an organization that advises students filing complaints
against their university regarding sexual misconduct, but decided not
to pursue it after she was re-enrolled.
“Honestly, this whole ordeal has made me feel like I have had to
prove that I should be allowed stay and that I did something wrong,”
she said. “I understand they have to be careful. I also know the need
to monitor my behavior — especially due to recent circumstances —
stems from wanting to make sure I have a happy and healthy semester.
But it is still hard to not feel somewhat offended and unsupported.”
***

B

ut SIS’s approval didn’t end Carissa’s troubles. As the semester has worn on, she said she has endured continual
harassment about the October incident from other students
— some she knows, some she doesn’t.
“Just because you don’t perform well, doesn’t mean you have to cry
rape about it,” she recalled one person saying to her. She remembered
another saying, “I don’t know why people were so hype about you. You
don’t live up to expectations.”
In dealing with the alleged harassment, she said, Penn has been at
its most supportive. SIS has coordinated meetings with Carissa, her
parents and University departments such as the Division of Public
Safety. With their help, Carissa filed police reports, which she later
closed. The University came up with other plans to ensure her safety,
ranging from putting her number on a priority list for the Penn Police
to providing walking escorts to class.
Still, her experiences have marred her last semester as an undergraduate at Penn.
“I want things to be better than this semester. I feel like I’ve given
up on having a super happy, fantastic senior spring,” Carissa said. She
paused. “I just want to graduate.”

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Greek Week to see more MGC involvement
Greek Week events
will also have a more
collaborative structure
BY MELISSA LAWFORD
Staff Writer

Fraternities and sororities at Penn are bringing a
new level of collaboration to
this semester’s Greek Week,
which began yesterday.
This year brings a significant increase to the Multicultural Greek Council’s
involvement in the week.
More i nteractive phila nt h ropy events a nd a n
increased emphasis on
bringing everyone together
are some of the other key
cha nges the Greek Week
organizers have focused on
this year, said Inter-Fraternity Council President and
College junior Jimmy Germi.
The MGC has greatly expanded its role in organizing events this year, Germi
said, describing the work
this semester as a “great
bridge” between the Greek
councils. He hopes this will
“set a precedent for years
to come.”
MGC is “not traditionally
involved as much” in the
pla nni ng of Greek Week ,
MGC President and Wharton
junior Peixin Mo said. This

comes from the smaller size
of the MGC and the consequent smaller scale of visibility and hype, she explained.
This year, however, MGC
has been present at all planning meetings, and each individual MGC chapter has
increased its involvement in
the week, Mo said. This is in
line with one of MGC’s aims
this year to “foster a more
collaborative Greek environment,” she added.
O ver the course of the
week, Greeks will participate in a range of events that
are based on the pillars of
Greek life.
T h i s s e me st e r, e ve nt s
are working with a “Camp”
theme, said College junior
and Panhellenic Council Vice
President of Programming
Alyssa Kaplan. Chapters will
be asked to donate supplies
and equipment to Camp Kesum, a camp run by Penn
students for children whose
parents are suffering from
cancer, she explained.
The planners have also
made structural changes to
the week. Instead of each
chapter submitting individual teams for competitions,
chapters have been combined to form nine groups.
Each g roup consists of
representatives of a single
Panhel chapter, about three

fraternities and about three
MGC chapters.
G e r m i ho p e s t h at t he
structure will encourage new
friendships, as in the past
“there felt like there was a
disconnect between MGC
Panhel and the IFC.”
Greek leaders have also
r e d e sig ne d m a ny of t he
events.
This year’s charity event,
the Camp Greek Carnival at
40th Street field, will bring
nearly 100 children from local Philadelphia schools for
a field day. It will be a chance
for students to “interact with
the community,” Germi said,
stressing the benefits of being able to see the direct impact of philanthropy.
Sig n ups for this event
have been “off the wall,” Kaplan said.
Other new features include
changes to the Quizzo event,
which has been organized in
collaboration with Wharton
Undergraduate Consulting
Club this semester, Mo said.
Instead of being held in a
classroom, tonight’s Quizzo
will be hosted by City Tap
House and questions w ill
range outside the normal
themes of Greek life.
Last night also introduced
a new theme of mental health
to Greek Week as the team
welcomed an evening of talks
and workshops f rom rep -

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resentatives of the mental
health group Minding Your
Mind.
Mental health is “a very
important topic on campus,
especially this semester,”
Kaplan said.
Greek leaders have been
wanting to proactively address mental health in the
G r e e k c o m mu n it y f o r a
while, Mo said. The team
decided that Greek Week
would be “a great way to get
that message in a big way,”
Kaplan added.
The planning committee
has implemented many of the
changes to the Greek Week
schedule af ter sur vey ing
chapters several months ago.
“ We wa nted somet hi ng
people would be excited to
take par t in,” K aplan explained.
Athletic competition was
somet hi ng recom mended
by students and so the team
has cont i nued to i nclude
sports events, like Wednesday ’s Powder puf f tour nament and Thursday’s Soccer
Tourney.
Recommendations from
t he sur vey a lso i ncluded
ideas that the team hopes
would be possible to implement during next fall’s Greek
Week, K aplan added. One
ide a is a big com mu n it y
event, such as a concert or a
comedian performance.

may have felt disconnected
from the older members, and
that may have led to unfortunate quote unquote drama...
Even with the different organizations I’ve worked on,
I think the most important
change happens when the
people you work with are
friends with each other on a
real level...
DP: Obviously elections
were a little bit hectic. What
were your thoughts during
the process?
JK: It was one of the hardest things I’ve done here at
Penn, for sure. It was just nonstop anxiety, nervousness, a
little bit of excitement. The
debates really stressed me
out – I’m not a debater, and
I’ve never debated before, and
my opponent was a debater so
I wasn’t sure what I was going
to do. Another cool part was
getting to meet with student
groups. I think sometimes at
Penn it’s very easy to get lost
in your own bubble. Through
the process of endorsements,
you really get to meet with
different groups and see the
different things they’ve been
doing.
DP: What do you hope your
legacy will be as UA President?
JK: We’ve had the highest voter turnout in Spring
elections this time — it was
about 53 percent, which was
pretty awesome and I think
speaks to the awesome job
the NEC did this election cycle ... Something I do hear is
some confusion between the
UA and Class Board – people
kind of wonder what the UA
does. I understand that I only
have a year on the UA — I
like to think I’m a pretty realistic person. But something
I would really like to see happen is for students to feel like
the UA is more relevant to
them, and that the UA can
impact students on a day to
day level ... I would also want
a legacy where the UA is more
oriented in that direction as
opposed to political shenanigans. Also accountability —
I want to make sure we do
everything on our platform.
That’s very important to me.
I’m excited. Also a little bit
nervous, but excited for a productive year.

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was accessible and meaningful to those impacted by mass
incarceration.”
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number of poor people of color
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others are serving 20 years
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He described the vast inequality of the prison system
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“ T he y b r ok e t he l i g ht
f ixture, and they literally
cheered about it — ‘yeah!’ —
are you kidding?”
Neff has not filed a police
report and does not plan to
do so. “We don’t know any individual who broke anything,
it was a group. We were not
able to single out anyone,” he
said. However, Neff is asking the University to help
compensate for the damage
to the bar.
Nef f said that the team
members’ behavior represented “patterns of behavior
with [Penn] groups over several years.” Student groups
a f f i l i at e d w it h W h a r t o n
have already been banned
from making reservations at
Fado, due to incidents such
as students using cocaine in
the bathrooms, having sex
in the janitor’s closet and
urinating on the bar.
The most recent incident
forced the pub’s managers
to hold a meeting on Monday

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Neff said that the lacrosse team’s behavior reflects past “patterns” of behavior among Penn student groups. Wharton
students are already banned from the establishment due to alleged incidents of cocaine usage and public urination.
to discuss their future policy
on taking reservations from
Penn groups.
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thorough job finding out what
the event is for,” he said. “It
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Neff said that an officer
from the Division of Public
Safety contacted him yesterday about the incident. DPS
deferred comment to Associate Vice Provost for University Life Hikaru Kozuma.
Upon notification of the incident, Penn Athletic Communications Director Mike
Mahoney issued a statement

that said, “We have been
made aware of the allegations
by Fado, and we are deeply
concerned about them. Our
coaches and senior staff are
meeting with the members of
the women’s lacrosse team,
and we will continue to thoroughly investigate the allegations around this event. If
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Chang started
her career in
private equity
AUDABON from page 1
skeptical of her decision; they
asked why she had gone to

Class

college when she just wanted
to bake. “It’s not just that,”
Chang told them.
Chang attributed her busine ss d evelopment sk i l l s
— which helped her grow
Audabon — to her time in
private equity, and says her
Penn education led her into
that field. Now with Audabon
Bakeshop, Chang says she
enjoys what she does, is good

at it — and has customers
who come back again and
again.
“It is the best scenario for
me to make money,” Chang
said.
Baking is not Chang’s only
passion, but it is an outlet
for her creativity to thrive.
Chang designed her own logo,
which is pressed onto the
front glass of the new store-

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front, stamped on boxes and
iron-pressed onto her own
shirts.
Audabon Bakeshop is one
of Philly’s first Asian American bakery concepts, pulsing
with 90s music and words
of wisdom scrawled on its
chalkboard walls. The bakery’s location at the edge of
Chinatown and near Reading Terminal Market attracts

visitors into Chinatown while
still resonating with an Asian
population that is familiar
with the Asian-inspired flavors, Chang said.
Chang moved among Taiwan, Japan and Thailand until she was five, and many
of her macaron flavors are
reminiscent of desserts from
her childhood.
What’s Chang’s favorite

f lavor? She is “equally enthusiastic” about each f lavor. “They’re all my babies,”
she said. For the upcoming
summer season, Chang does
recommend the buttermilk
panna cotta pudding. It is
“very subtle” and requires a
“discerning palate.”
It is something to look for
when as the weather gets
warmer, Chang said.

o t e
o n l i n e F r o m A p r i l 1 — A p r i l 4
These are the finalists for the Class of 2014 Senior Honor Awards (Hottel, Harnwell, Goddard and Brownlee for women; and Spoon, Bowl, Cane and Spade for men). These awards
recognize outstanding campus leadership. Nominations were solicited from the faculty, staff and students. A committee of administrators and the senior class board then narrowed
the list to these finalists. The senior class will choose the final eight award recipients in an online election. Voting will be accessible online at
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Winners will be announced on April 30th. The awards will be presented at the Ivy Day ceremony on Saturday, May 17th.

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Penn reverses history to take down Princeton

M. TENNIS | Quakers
top Tigers for first time
since 2007 to start Ivy
play on the right foot

picked up the doubles point to
enter the singles matches up
1-0. As expected, nothing came
easily in any of those.
Princeton would win the first
singles match to knot it up, but
over the next 15 minutes, the
Red and Blue would rattle off
three straight wins to secure
perhaps the most important
win in these seniorsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; tenure.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;To beat a team like [Princeton], you have to win close
matches,â&#x20AC;? Geatz said.
They did just that. The first
Penn singles win came thanks
to a two-set effort by Katz,
who was followed up by his
freshmen teammates Matt
Nardella â&#x20AC;&#x201D; who earned his
tenth win of the year â&#x20AC;&#x201D; and
Marshall Sharp . The freshmen will have something to
defend next year, but they
wonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have to wait to get an

vs. No. 56 Princeton

BY STEVEN JAFFE
Senior Staff Writer
No rain could put a damper
on this one.
On Saturday a f ter noon,
backed by a boisterous crowd,
the Quakers took down No. 56
Princeton, 4-1, at the Levy Tennis Pavillion, after being forced
inside due to the weather.
For the seniors, this one has
been a long time coming. After
losing to the Tigers (10-8, 0-1
Ivy) in each of the past three
years by the slimmest of margins, 4-3 â&#x20AC;&#x201D; and failing to secure a win in the rivalry since
the 2007 season â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Penn (5-9,

1-0) finally ended the drought.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;[This means] more than
anyone could imagine,â&#x20AC;? senior
Zach Katz, winner of one of the
singles matches, said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Everyone circles this one on their
calendars when it comes out,
and everyoneâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s just on cloud
nine.â&#x20AC;?
That wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t the only streak
the Red and Blue snapped on
Saturday either. For the first
time in six years, they also
have a winning record in the
Ivy League.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;Hey, right now, Pennâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s leading the Ivy League,â&#x20AC;? coach David Geatz said of his squad.
The Quakers got off to a solid
start for the afternoon, as they

elusive Princeton victory under their belts.
Fo r t he d ou b le s p o i nt ,
Nardella teamed with senior
co-captain Nikola Kocovic for
an 8-5 win while Katz worked
a l o n g s i d e j u n i o r Je r e m y
Court for a convincing 8 - 4
victory.
Saturday â&#x20AC;&#x2122;s triumph also
opened doors for a program
that hasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t had a winning
record since the last year it
tamed the Tigers.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s huge, because we go
into next weekend against two
teams we think we can definitely beat,â&#x20AC;? Katz said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;If we
get both of those, weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll be in
first, have a good chance this
year.â&#x20AC;?
While the Quakers are still
hurting from a slew of unfortunate injuries this year, this win
helps numb that pain for now.

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Senior Zach Katz topped Princetonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Alex Day in straight sets at fourth singles to
help the Quakers beat the Tigers for the first time in his career.

Red and Blue canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t handle Tigers onslaught in Ivy opener
W. TENNIS | Penn
picks up the doubles
point, but canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t get much
else going in singles play
BY ELLIS KIM
Contributing Writer
Hoping to defy expectations
and win its first match of Ivy
play this season, the outgunned
Penn womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s tennis team instead lost in predictable fashion
to a rival squad.
Last Saturday, the Quakers
traveled through the downpour
of rain to take on No. 66 Princeton on its own courts, ultimately
losing to the Tigers, 5-2.
Though Penn (7-5, 0-1 Ivy)
captured two doubles wins behind the pairs of senior Stephanie Do and junior Alexandra

Aaron Campbell/DP File Photo

Junior Sol Eskenazi helped the Quakers pick up a doubles-point win against
Princeton, but lost in a third set tiebreaker in her match at first singles.

at No. 66 Princeton
Ion along with freshman Kana
Daniel and junior Sol Eskenazi
to secure the doubles point for
the Red and Blue, the Tigers
(12-5, 1-0) were a resilient bunch
and proved insurmountable in
singles play.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;[Princetonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s] performance
was very impressive because
of how quickly they shook off
the doubles point defeat and
pressed the reset button,â&#x20AC;? coach
Sanela Kunovac said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Typically, when you have that type
of doubles victory that we had,
it carries over into a few games
and gives you a head start. They
were able to really break that
quickly.â&#x20AC;?

Indeed, Princeton took five of
the six singles matches to deal a
quick blow against the Quakers.
Only sophomore Sonya Latycheva was able to notch a singles victory for Penn, 7-6, 6-2.
The Tigers didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t drop a set in
four of Princetonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s five singles
wins, putting the Quakers down
and out early.
But the top-billed match of
the day produced the biggest
thrills, though Penn would
come up short there as well.
Eskenazi and Princeton junior Lindsay Graff â&#x20AC;&#x201D; a firstteam All-Ivy selection last year
â&#x20AC;&#x201D; duked it out in an epic battle
at first singles. Gripping and
hard-fought, the third-set tiebreaker fell in Graffâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s favor, 11-9.
Even in defeat, the Quakers
could appreciate the competition between the two rival stars.

â&#x20AC;&#x153;[It] was a tremendous display of athleticism, will, desire
and heart from both sides,â&#x20AC;? Kunovac said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;They were separated by one point the whole
time and it really came down to
the wire. If someone came and
wanted to watch a high quality
match, I think it was one of the
highest quality matches today
across womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s college tennis.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;We definitely spent everything we had and we left it all
out on the court. Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re feeling
a little bit empty, just because
we gave it all. But weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re walking out of their facilities with no
regrets.â&#x20AC;?
With little time to dwell in
the past, the Quakers have no
choice but to keep their heads
up and their spirits high as they
hit the road on Friday to face
Brown in Providence, R.I.

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Quakers ride defense to
season-saving Ivy win
M. LACROSSE |
Bock’s two goals helped
Penn capture lead in
late second half
BY ALEXIS ZIEBELMAN
Associate Sports Editor
After two Ivy losses and with
its back against the wall, No. 13
Penn men’s lacrosse returned
to action on Saturday searching for its first conference victory against No. 14 Yale.
And the Red and Blue got
it, picking up a season-saving
victory over the Elis, 6-5.
The natural question is,
what changed?
The a nswer is simple:
Penn’s defense stepped up
and played the way it did earlier in the season during its
big wins against other ranked
teams.
“We were just better on defense and Brian [Feeney] was
better in goal,” coach Mike Murphy said. “All week, [we had]
been refocusing on the fundamentals and how we play team
defense, and we played some
good defense earlier in the year.
“We played good defense
against Duke and pretty good
defense against St. Joe’s and
Denver, and so we were just
trying to get back to that.”
Against No. 2 Cornell on

at No. 14 Yale
March 22, the Quakers (4-3, 1-2
Ivy) allowed 17 goals, but only
let in five this past weekend.
The game began with a goal
from Yale’s Eric Scott, but
Penn quickly answered with
a goal from senior midfield
Drew Belinsky.
The first period saw another
back-and-forth goal exchange.
Yale’s second score was answered by one from another
Penn senior midfield, Zack
Losco.
With 11 seconds remaining
in the first half, the Bulldogs
(4-3, 1-2) scored again to reclaim the lead heading into
halftime.
In the third per iod, the
Quakers were able to catch up
with Yale, evening the score at
four apiece with one quarter
to play.
“A lot of [the win] came
down to being a bit tougher
than Yale was,” Murphy said.
“We were down 4-2 and came
back and got the lead.”
Though it took a while, the
Red and Blue were finally able
to capture a lead when junior
attack Isaac Bock scored his
second goal of the game. Sophomore attack Nick Doktor fol-

lowed Bock’s score and pushed
the Quakers’ lead to two with
3:35 remaining.
The Bulldogs tried to make
a comeback and scored once
but were unable to finish the
job, leading to a 6-5 finish and
a big win for the Red and Blue.
“ We just kept doing the
same thing,” Murphy said.
“It’s not like you change defense or move to a different
defense and we gave them one
at the end, but for the most
part we just had a good week of
practice on defense and were
focused on that.
“It took a while for us to keep
playing our game. We stuck to
the game plan to get the lead
like that and it was great.”
Penn was able to get the win
it needed against the Elis. The
Red and Blue sit tied for fourth
in the Ancient Eight with both
Yale and Princeton, and are
now halfway through their Ivy
slate.
While it is still too early to
tell what Penn’s fate will be
this season, if the team plays
the way it did against Yale, it
could very easily climb up in
the rankings and finish better
than its 3-3 conference record
last season.
But only time will tell, and
the Quakers’ next test will be
this Saturday at Franklin Field
against third-place Brown.

TUESDAY, APRIL 1, 2014 PAGE 11

Big wins ease
nonconference
struggles
SOFTBALL from page 12
Alexis Borden getting the
call, that was more than
enough. Borden gave up only
two hits while tossing a complete game shutout.
“When Borden is on the
mound, we know we have a
really good shot to win and
that gives the whole team a
lot of confidence going out
there,” coach Leslie King
said. “If she shuts them
down at the top of the first
and we score at the bottom,
that sets a really good tone
for the game and puts us in a
really good position.
“That was a key for game
one.”
Elysse Gorney’s second
inning single gave the Red
and Blue an additional insurance run.
The second game was not
quite as simple, but a convincing victory nonetheless
for Penn.
While Sargent was in the
circle for her first Ivy start,
her best display was at the
plate when she hit her second
home run of the day in the
second inning, a solo shot.
Gorney followed in the
third inning with an RBI
double, while freshman right
fielder Leah Allen smashed a
solo homer of her own in the
bottom of the fourth.
Yale — which actually outhit Penn, 7-5 — nearly closed
the gap at several times, including one chilling moment
at the top of the fourth inning.
With Yale freshman Ceri
Godinez at bat with a full
count and Bulldogs on first
and third with two outs, a
visible sigh of relief escaped
Sargent’s mouth when she
got a called strike three.
Sargent’s defense held the
game intact for her for the
next three innings, fending
the Elis off the scoreboard
and leaving them with an-

other loss.
“It definitely wasn’t my
best day on the mound, but
my team showed me that
no m at t er wh at , t hey ’r e
always going to have my
back,” Sargent said. “We’re
a solid team together. It’s
not a one-man show by any
me a ns. [ My t e a m mat es]
killed it in the infield and

the outfield.”
It wasn’t a pretty win, but
the Quakers needed it to keep
pace in the conference after a
slow start.
“We may not have had the
ver y best preseason, but
we’re ready to play right now,
and we’re ready to rock the
Ivies,” Sargent said with a
smile.

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On the road against Yale on Saturday, junior attack Isaac Bock notched two goals in the second half to help Penn overcome
a halftime deficit. Bock’s second goal helped break a 4-4 tie, and gave the Quakers a lead they would not relinquish.

Women’s team
can’t find way
to top Yale
ROWING from page 12
through it, taking three out of
eight races on Saturday.
With the win over Northeastern, the Quakers reclaimed the
Burk Cup for just the second
time in 13 years. Each crew remained close after 500 meters
but the Red and Blue pulled

Hartman and
Cuff take the
hill on Tuesday
BASEBALL from page 12
deep for a two-run homer.
Gauteiri brought a perfect
game into the fourth inning
where it was broken up on a
single but it would be Penn,
not Yale (7-11, 0-2), that broke
through in the frame, as senior
left fielder Rick Brebner followed an Austin Bossart RBI
single with a three-run homer
that put Penn up 6-0.
Picking up his first win of
the year, Gauteiri finished the
seven-inning game with just
one run allowed, scattering four
hits and two walks while striking out six Bulldogs batters.
“Dan really had good command today,” coach John Yurkow
said. “He controlled that game
from the first pitch to the last.”
Fellow junior Ronnie Glenn
was unable to continue the

away, outlasting the Huskies
by 2.4 seconds.
The 10th-ranked lightweight
men’s team also thrived in the
rain, sweeping No. 12 Mercyhurst in the varsity and freshman races.
Meanwhile, the women’s
team avoided the rain entirely
by heading northwards.
Competing in the Connell
Cup, the Quakers took on No.
7 Yale and Columbia on Yale’s
campus, rowing on the Housatonic River.
The off-campus surroundings treated the Red and Blue
well against the Lions — the

Quakers easily held off Columbia in all three races that pitted
the schools against each other.
Things were far more difficult against the host Elis,
though, as Yale defeated Penn
in all five races, with none being decided by a margin closer
than 6.7 seconds.
While the women’s team is
back in action next weekend,
traveling to Boston to compete against Northeastern and
Syracuse in the Orange Challenge Cup, the men will have
to wait a bit longer — they
host Princeton and Columbia
on April 12.

string of solid pitching in the
second contest, getting hit
around early by the Elis to the
tune of five runs (three earned)
in two and two-thirds innings
pitched.
With Penn down 5-1, Yurkow
turned to freshman Jake Cousins in the bullpen, who put together a string of zeroes to keep
the team in the game. Cousins
gave up just one unearned run
in four and one-third innings
pitched, allowing just four baserunners.
“It’s really all you can ask
for is just a couple zeroes and
he did exactly that,” Yurkow
said. “We were able to get a
couple and I just had a feeling
with the way were swinging
the bats over the last two weeks
that if we could put some zeroes together, we’d have a good
chance of coming back against
that team.”
Yurkow was proved right as
Penn’s offense exploded to the
tune of 11 runs, led by four hits
from Brebner — including another homer — and three hits
and three RBI from sophomore
Mike Vilardo. The Quakers tied

the game in the fourth inning
before a four-run fifth put the
game out of reach.
“It’s good to see [for] Mike
Vilardo,” Yurkow said. “He and
Rick Brebner have really made
a huge contribution over the last
four or five games and that’s
kind of what we were hoping
when the season started.
“It took them a little while
to get going but, man, it’s nice
when you have upperclassmen
taking good swings like that.”
The Red and Blue hope to
pick up where they left off in Ivy
play when they face Brown in a
doubleheader on Tuesday, a set
originally scheduled for Sunday.
Penn’s starting pitchers will
be the Ancient Eight’s leader
in earned run average – junior
Connor Cuff – alongside freshman Jack Hartman, who is 2-0
on the season.
“If Connor throws like he has
all year, we are going to have a
chance to win with him on the
mound,” Yurkow said. “Hopefully Connor comes out and gets
off to a good start and we’ll roll
it into game two and we’ll let
Jack do his thing.”

Senior outfielder Rick Brebner had a performance that was anything but boring during Monday’s doubleheader, hitting
a home run in both of Penn’s victories over Yale. Brebner leads the Quakers with a .348 batting average on the season.

BASEBALL | Dan Gauteiri
threw a complete game in the
first win before the offense
took over in game two

BY IAN WENIK
Sports Editor
Though rain pounded Penn’s campus over the weekend, the men’s and
women’s rowing teams found different
ways to deal with the precipitation.
The men’s heavyweight team, competing at home against Northeastern and George Washington, paddled

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Sports Desk (215) 898-6585 ext. 147

BY ELLIS KIM
Contributing Writer

vs. Yale

After a weekend full of rainouts,
Ivy season couldn’t have come soon
enough for Penn baseball.
The Quakers were originally supposed to play a doubleheader against
Yale on Saturday afternoon but the
weather washed out both games,
leading to a Monday matinee between the Red and Blue and the Elis.
Penn took game one, 6-1, behind a
complete game from junior pitcher
Dan Gauteiri and claimed game

ROWING | Men’s and
women’s teams pick up
variety of victories against
Ivy and nonconference foes

SOFTBALL | Sargent
smacks pair of home runs
in doubleheader sweep to
open up Ivy play

vs. Yale

BY STEVEN TYDINGS
Senior Sports Editor

Quakers
find way to
push past
weather

DP File Photo

Senior catcher Elysse Gorney hit an RBI single in the first game of Penn’s doubleheader against Yale
before adding an RBI double in the second contest as the Quakers swept the Elis in two 3-0 shutouts.

two as well, 11-9, after an offensive
outburst in the middle innings.
The Quakers (8-10, 2-0 Ivy) got off
to a quick start in the first inning, as
Gauteiri got through a perfect inning
with two strikeouts. The offense provided him with all the run support he
would need in the bottom half of the
inning, as junior first baseman Jeff
McGarry took Yale’s Chasen Ford

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The sun was beaming for Penn
softball Monday, both literally and
figuratively.
After mother nature’s furious
rains forced the postponement of
a doubleheader against Brown on
Saturday, the skies finally cleared
and made way for the Quakers to
host Yale at Penn Park on Monday
for its first Ivy games of the year.
It was a quick doubleheader for
the Red and Blue (6-11, 2-0 Ivy),

vs. Yale

vs. Yale
who dispatched the Bulldogs (3-17,
0-4) by identical 3-0 margins in both
games.
The opening game was decided
early on in one fell swoop.
In the bottom of the first inning,
freshman Alexis Sargent blasted a
home run to center field, giving the
Quakers an early 2-0 lead.
And with junior starting pitcher

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Sophomore Swanson stars at NCAAs
M. SWIMMING |
School record-setting
performance in 1650 free
leads to top-10 finish
BY IAN WENIK
Sports Editor
It’s the beginning of a new era
for the Penn men’s swimming
team — and Chris Swanson is
leading the way.
Last weekend, the budding
sophomore star turned in a brilliant performance at the NCAA
Championships in Austin, Texas, participating in two events
and setting a new school record
in the process.
Competing in NCAAs for the
second consecutive season,
Swanson was driven to make a
bigger impact, and it showed.
In the 500 freestyle, Swanson finished 38th with a time of
4:20.70, a six-spot improvement
from his results at the event one
year ago.

But it was in the 1650 free
that Swanson made his biggest
impact.
Already red-hot after easily
winning the Ivy League title in
the event just about a month ago,
Swanson broke his own school
record while going up against
the nation’s best — his final time
of 14:49.63 shattered his old mark
by just over four seconds, which
was set at the aforementioned
Ivy championship meet.
Swanson’s efforts were rewarded with a ninth-place finish, which made him only the
second male swimmer in school
history to record a top-10 finish
at the NCAA Championships,
and the first since Steve Kuster
placed ninth in the 200 fly in
1993.
A l r e ady a r ecor d - sett er,
Swanson’s performance will
likely serve as an example for
his teammates, which have a
bright future after the Quakers
finished third in the conference
this season.

Aaron Campbell/DP File Photo

Sophomore Chris Swanson’s ninth-place finish in the 1650 free was the first top-10 finish for a
male Penn swimmer at the NCAA Championships since 1993, and only the second ever.